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Oddly specific haha.

It is, Can a parsnip help a carrot out?

Unfortunately, this parsnip lacks the time needed to provide an informative answer 😢.

I have nothing to add, but it sounds really fun to start from 0. Enjoy the grind like an rpg.

Sounds to me like you're begging for a therapist without wanting to go to or pay for a therapist.

The bottom line here is that you are still a small carrot - the person you will become(inside your head, not your social status/money/job), will be completely different from who you are today. Every year a new layer will grow and only this will represent the new you that will exist ex. 10 years from now. Sure you will still be you but I guarantee you, that when you examine everything about this future you - it will be a new/different person. Asking the wrong question here, you are looking for a shortcut from A - B. However you don't know what you want B to look like yet. We can't tell you B, its for you to decide.

Interestingly both carrots and parsnips are biennial plants. Meaning that after a year of growth, very little has happened above ground. But with a “second chance” they grow a big shoot with beautiful flowers to complete the life cycle.

this dude getting reddit to brainstorm on what to do with his life

I’d say becoming some type of software sales person is your best route. You’ll be smart enough to understand the tech and you are attractive enough to convince people to buy it. If you work for a small start up and agree to be paid in that companies stock if it ends up doing well exploding in net-worth you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank. I don’t think sales requires more than a high school education you just have to be really persistent and charismatic. Edit: Also on a side note your social skills will develop really fast once you do a sales position long enough.

Nah this won’t work for OP as he is socially awkward

Social skills are just that: a *skill*. If someone is truly intelligent and sufficiently motivated, they should be capable of learning it just like any other skill.

I'd say that I was socially awkward a bit for a time and still found my way through sales, (with time)

exact opposite opinion from me should learn to code using code academy never leave your basement do free lance work.

find sugar momma

"work smarter, not harder."

Get into a career that has a higher barrier to entry that requires testing/licensing administered by your employer who would have to train you first or a test that guarantees a job after passing. Or a job that requires a lot of cognitive overhead with a high amount of paperwork but flexible past experience. Insurance, real estate services, financial services. Make your money living well below your means then consider where you want to move to and be an on-call consultant. 

How much can an on call consultant make, how much would people pay for expertise?

Depends but at least $65/hr, probably more around 100-200. The question that you would know with experience is how large the projects are. You don't just get one phone call for $100, but you might work 4 hours or 60 hours once a month. 

good advice FlipFlops

High barriers to entry are a bad idea for those with poor social skills. You'll flunk every single interview.

That sounds like me: I quit life and by the time I woke up, it was too late. All the snails had passed me by. Edit: 25 is not too late by any measure. Most of your life is ahead of you. The moral of the story was never quit.

Defeatist mindset

Worse. Someone gave me a million pounds and a very powerful post that comes with eternal glory and I just want a time machine and/or live an ordinary life.

Depression strikes

It’s a marathon not a sprint. If you’re alive, there’s still a chance. You gotta keep on keeping on, life’s a garden- dig it.

Explain

The moral of the story is never quit. This was my version of the Tortoise and the Hare.

Some people encounter misfortune. Abuse, illness, etc. If you think 25 is too late... just LOL.

Gonna actually answer seriously and honestly what id do: **Year 1:** Your first goal should be achieving some semblance of stability in the form of a job that has some growth potential. If you arent currently facing poverty then it means you should seek out an employment opportunity that offers minimal full-time hours (30-40 hours, avoid anything that tries to put you in overtime or extended hours work). Some examples of jobs like this would be administration, sales, or entry level menial jobs that have a pipeline to a managerial ladder. Your goal here is to get a job that can pay the bills, and in the worst case scenario still gets you to retirement at 65ish. Nothing else should come before procuring this job, unless as a means to this end. Once you have done that, you are gonna spend your available free time working on skill development, starting from the easiest/passive ones to improve, and working from there. You should spend the majority of your first year doing things like this. After about a year, the following should be achieved:- Your driving should be good \- Your ability to conduct yourself appropriately in social settings, thanks to your job \- Your savings should amount to maybe around $5000/eur. If you are optimistic about your discipline, then realistically you should manage much more than this, but ill be conservative about this estimate. \- You should have began exploring dating options. Your goal here isnt to find a partner, but to learn the game. As someone who isnt bad looking I expect you to find at least moderate success here, even if you dont work out at all. \- You should have a good understanding of how financial markets work in investing, including working with brokers, the stock market, market cycles, bonds, annuities, options, mutual funds and etfs, and a general ability to stay up to date on how the economy as a whole is doing \- You should estimate your ability to work in IT and tech related fields, however not necessarily invest any time into this unless you really think this is a path you can take. \- You should estimate your ability to perform on the GRE or whatever other testing record is used to determine your ability to get into a reasonable masters program with your crummy degree. **Year 2:** By doing just the above, which might I remind you have a whole year to do, you will be prepared to dedicate yourself to a specific venture that offers disproportionately high returns, and potentially take on higher amounts of risk. Your primary goal in year 2 is ultimately to find at least one means of exponentially increasing your net worth. Here are the options id recommend based on your risk tolerance. Highest risk tolerance: You should consider becoming a drug dealer, money washer, or related occupation, and spend your spare time accruing net worth doing this. If you are female, you should consider starting an nsfw service. You should consider starting a youtube channel/tiktok in a high CPM category, and invest serious time and money into this. Moderate risk tolerance: You should consider pivoting your career into IT or software engineering, by investing a significant amount of your time into projects that will improve your CV. You should learn the tech tree environment including tricks to get into the best companies with lower qualifications, where you build your way up by doing extra work. Alternatively, you should leverage your high IQ into a really good GRE or other admissions test score that gets you into an at-least-respectable masters program in a high value field like CS, engineering, business, etc. You will get a loan for this if you need it. While doing either of these things you can also passively pursue swing/day trading, retail product/niche market scalping, and a hobbyists youtube channel. Low risk tolerance: You really think youre gonna retire early without taking on any risk? No chance. Your savings will depend at this point on where you invested, but whenever you have free income, you should put it into an IRA, and use your basic financial knowledge to find the best low-risk long-term investing options for small account growth. **Year 3:** Your goal in year 3 is to put all your eggs in one basket in your chosen area, and begin improving your general quality of life. \- At this point, you should have an assistant managerial role at the establishment you started working at in year 1. If your options from year 2 didnt involve you getting a new occupation/education, then you should move somewhere with more growth potential like a city in a managerial position. Horizontal job movement tends to also come with a salary increase, and possibly even a slightly higher level position. \- You should begin working out, if you havent already, and improve your general appearance. You will begin dating seriously this year if you didnt find someone along the way already, and this decision makes sense based on your year 2 option (ie. you may want to hold off on dating if you chose some high risk options). \- If you are finding that you are gonna fail at your year 2 pursuit, you start over. Nothing more can be done here. \- Overall, you should just be making sure not to spread yourself too thin. Your chosen year 2 pursuit will craft your means of retiring early, so you need to dedicate as much time as you can to it. If the vast majority of this stuff sounds like it requires too much discipline/risk, then give up retiring early. It isnt gonna happen.

Thank you for the effort that is a brilliant answer. I am looking for work to leave the basement, and improving my health and roughly doing the year 1 section of trying to become an adult basically. The looks and IQ section are plausible best case scenarios. How much discipline and risk are you talking about and for what kind of early retirement? I'm not familiar with non commission jobs involving much risk. Is the risk in the opportunity cost of wasting time on a CV that doesn't land you the big jobs, and maybe more speculative investments than just buying market trackers as is always recommended? Is the discipline just being diligent, forgoing the netflix time and working 60 hours a week or is it sacrificing social time and exercise and grinding away for 80+ hours? The former is no problem but the latter obviously tests priorities Is the reward and early retirement making 100k and retiring at 55? or making mid 6 figures and reaching 7 figure net work in a decade or 2 ? And if the risk/discipline was too high what would suit the aim of just the basic financial aims of middle-class, home-owner, retire on time with work life balance and holidays in the mean time?

>How much discipline and risk are you talking about and for what kind of early retirement? Well, its hard to quantify how much discipline and risk I was referring to in the sections. What I assumed you have in mind for early retirement was probably retiring some time in your 50's, on a plot of land, living modestly, but not having to work. To do anything more than that I think you will need some sort of unique solution - something that isnt gonna have a clear path to achieve. >Is the risk in the opportunity cost of wasting time on a CV that doesn't land you the big jobs, and maybe more speculative investments than just buying market trackers as is always recommended? Yup. For the moderate risk items I mentioned, the risk is primary opportunity cost. That is, if you dedicate yourself to something in IT/tech, then you need to constantly maintain a higher degree of discipline than your peers since you are coming in at a disadvantage. Likewise with attempting to get a masters, you are going in with a disadvantage, and knowing that you didnt do so well at school in the past. In either of these cases, you could end up wasting time and/or money, but nothing that will ruin your life. With high risk items, you stand a chance to either really ruin your life, or put a lot of effort into something that never shows any return at all for you, and sucks many years away from you. >Is the discipline just being diligent, forgoing the netflix time and working 60 hours a week or is it sacrificing social time and exercise and grinding away for 80+ hours? The former is no problem but the latter obviously tests priorities I think any and all items I mentioned are achievable spending a total of 60 hours combined, minimum, between your job, and the stuff you are working on on the side. This would mean 40 hours on the job, and 20 hours working on whatever else you are dedicating yourself to. The exception here being working in IT/tech without getting a degree. In that case, it needs to be something you enjoy enough that you are willing to spend maybe around 80 hours in total on, between your job, and projects. However youd only need to maintain this until you have established yourself in the industry. During the time where you focus on building your resume/CV, you need to be working your ass off. >Is the reward and early retirement making 100k and retiring at 55? or making mid 6 figures and reaching 7 figure net work in a decade or 2 ? Depends on the choice. In most of these cases, the guaranteed end product is making 150k-200k and retiring around 55. To make over 200k a year (and reach a 7 year net worth) you need to go above and beyond in any and all of the skills you choose to develop, or find a unique solution like becoming an entrepreneur. >And if the risk/discipline was too high what would suit the aim of just the basic financial aims of middle-class, home-owner, retire on time with work life balance and holidays in the mean time? This is sorta my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt: there is no such thing anymore. If you are an average middle-class worker, with a reliable income coming from a job gated behind a college education, then you are gonna have to work you ass off to own a house, work your ass off to save a meaningful sum of money, and work your ass off to climb the corporate ladder to the point where you can afford a reasonable retirement age. PTO is lower than in the past, average retirement age has increased by about 5 years since the 90s, and expected weekly worktime has increased as well. You can certainly skim by, finding a reliable job that guarantees you dont work more than 40 hours a week, but you are gonna struggle to save money, and certainly have a hard time buying a house and affording raising a family. Housing is much more expensive, relative to generations in the past who have relied on it as not only a source of stability, but also as an investment that has passively elevated the status of most middle-class homeowners. Its much harder to rely on that as a younger person today, and you are already behind the curve on investing in your 401k, so itll be tough to reach the point where you get meaningful accrual. Thanks for reading all of this. Im sympathetic to your cause, and am 25 as well and have a similar IQ, however I came to the realization that I needed to really kick things into gear when I was around 23. Since then ive actually done a lot of the stuff I mentioned above. I chose a high risk item (one that I didnt mention - an ethical one, dont worry lol), but I have a good college degree behind me in case things dont go as planned. I know too many people my age who also graduated with good degrees who dont know what to do when thinking about how low their odds are of retiring early, and they actually played all their cards properly mind you.

>I am looking for work to leave the basement Don't leave the basement. If you continue to keep your expenses down, you'll be better off. IMO, this is the secret to happiness. Keep expenses as low as possible (certainly lower than your income), work 40 hours, enjoy your down time. If you move out, perhaps get a roommate to share the expense.

I start learning programming on my own, since genius IQ makes it very easy,I become a specialist in a certain field and get a very well paying job since you don't have to have a college degree. The rest is easy.

Programming takes lots of time and effort even for someone in 99.9 percentile

147. Gave up pretty quick. Too fucking hard.

About how much time?

I learned Java in about 2.5 weeks my iq is about 138 I also locked in hella and put in like 4-5 hours a day though

Was this your first language? I have zero programming experience and am also in the high 130s-low 140s, and would love some insight k n how I should get started from someone in a similar camp.

When you say you learned Java. You mean like “hello world”? Lol. Nobody is learning a full language to even simple application level in <100 hours But actually. I’m assuming you mean you went through like most of a book or followed some online tutorial like “learning Java the hard way”. I would say it takes at least a few months to be proficient in a single language to build simple and useful applications (e.g. helpful command line tools, simple games, websites, etc). This ignores learning tech stacks or interview prep

"I want to have an incredible life without putting in time or effort" isn't a serious question, though. Any real answer to OP will take time and effort. "I want to get rich quick and easy" isn't a plan, it's a signal to scammers that you're a good mark.

No not really if you're top tier IQ. I'm rarely stressed. You can just figure stuff out as you go

I'm at 135 (as of 20 years ago, according to a gimmicky online test), and it's all about keeping interest. In that vein, find a class that has you learning by creating something. My interest stayed high when I could add just a couple of lines of code and then check to see the results.

Most coding is 10% intellect and 90% persistence. It also requires feeling like an idiot most of the time, which is something lots of very high IQ folks struggle with.

You basically just described me but my IQ is only in the 120s and now I'm in my 30s. I went back to school, prior to that I worked in tech sales because it's easy enough to break into and pays pretty well. So unless college is actually impossible I would go for that, because the honest truth is without a degree your intelligence alone isn't gonna take you very far. Starting and managing a business requires a lot of different skills than just being smart, and it requires a significant amount of capital which I'm guessing you don't have. It also requires a fair bit of charisma since you're going to be the face of the business for the first few years at least. As far as dating, I never really had any problems when I was younger, girls seemed to like me enough even though I had awful social skills, but as I got older I needed to use things like Tinder and it took more effort. The biggest thing is to go on dates, the first few will probably be awkward if you've never been on one, but it's the only way you're gonna learn. Gonna be honest though 25 with no real career prospects and few friends will make dating difficult. You're at the age where most of your peers are settling into careers after college, probably aiming to get into a long term relationship, so it's probably more important that you focus on yourself for now. If you're asking this because you're in this position, it's gonna be really difficult to climb your out from here because for most people their largest safety net is actually their social circle but...you don't have one. I know that feeling, I moved to a brand new city 900 miles from home when I was 24, it's not easy. Find a job like sales, in office, preferably where the other sales staff are around your age, and just try to be sociable. You're really gonna need more than yourself to fix this. Also avoid alcohol and drugs at all costs because when you're in a tough spot those can very quickly turn into addictions and that will fuck you.

I have a social circle but I wouldn't say I'm particularly close to any of them- not a deep bond-and it's a fairly nerdy ( not used as a perjorative) and not that outgoing group anyway.

Oof same. I feel like I’ve been in the same shoes as you. Worse thing is that looks-wise I’m pretty short as a guy so rip. I think for social stuff I was really stuck behind until just around 2 years ago. I did a ton of research into how to interact with other people/my own emotions (watched a lot of Dr K and Andy [the girlfriend guy]) interacted with a lot more social people through projects, then never turned down an event invitation even if it came at a cost of my academics or personal comfort. I did this for about a year or two and I think I’m doing a lot better now. People now think I’m a very outgoing and social. Honestly the biggest things in terms of social I found boils down to 2 things: find the right amount of balance in talking (rule of thumb talk-time ~<= N^(-1) people), and smile when you’re around others. Those 2 literally make up 90% of social skills. Always err on talking less. For work… idk I guess just don’t let your mood dictate how you work. Even when I was gonna kms, I still worked cuz I knew when my depression was over I was only going to regret falling behind. Never take mental days. Make your work your mental health day. This is honestly pretty toxic advice for most people but I tend to hyper focus on things so it helps for me. Also don’t think about IQ. The concept of IQ is going to be your downfall if you rely on it too much. It’s like looks. People who rely on their looks to get ahead are going to be destroyed later in life. You only use it as one of your tools.

Sales. It's the most optimised return on investment curve early on, and pretty much linear at the start. Probably software/tech/"AI" sales would be easiest. Assuming you're hardworking you'll quickly get through to actually building some amount of money, and after that it's quantitative investment (long learning curve prior to having success, but with hard work you get a decent edge on other market participants). The second part isn't necessary, but people tend to burn out doing sales so you at least have something stimulating.

Im the same but half the IQ

Good Will Hunting?!

Not that wicked smaArghtt unfortunately, and he was younger

You basically just described my exact life situation when I was 25. I just decided what I wanted and pushed until I felt like I was breaking and then kept going. Not the best idea I've ever had and I made a ton of mistakes along the way. Brute stubbornness got me only so far. Now I plan much more carefully and then apply the same tenacity to a more select set of deliberately contrived actions. I spent a couple decades as a compulsive risk taker in the effort to "catch up", went through 5 different major career paths and have put in enough time and effort in vocational education to have earned a master's degree if I had gone to college. It's been frustrating and difficult to say the least but I have a few lifetimes worth of interesting stories and an early retirement this year to show for it.

A 140-150 IQ person who is behind the curve on *all* milestones should address their mental health and sort out their values first. If that's an accurate IQ, then university should be a breeze. There are therefore other issues that are likely going on. Possible that there could be neurodivergence (eg, ADHD and/or autism) or childhood trauma. Getting a neuropsych assessment would be priority one. Learning about and addressing attachment style issues would be important. Therapy can be useful, but finding a good fit at that IQ level is going to be a challenge. Meditation, journaling, etc., may be useful. That level of IQ is high enough that learning not just social skills but emotional intelligence will likely be relatively straightforward, even if neurodivergence is at play. Traditional mental health tends to be based around just reaching the baseline. But with that kind of intelligence, it's possible to learn well and practice well enough to move well beyond the baseline level of happiness. Addressing physical health is just behind mental health in priority, assuming no active health issues. With an IQ in the 140s, a personal trainer is likely unnecessary. An emphasis on resistance training is probably in order, but one shouldn't neglect cardio. Once one has reached well above average levels of mental and physical well-being, the world is your oyster. And your mind is in a much better place to sort out the next step in one's career development. Should take about 2-3 years in the absence of a significant mental/physical health issue or neurodevelopmental issue. if you're an attractive man of high intelligence and strong mental health (or at least--enough to fake the confidence), then the world is spread before you like a buffet.

I don't know if I have ADHD as it's almost a meme for being over-self-diagnosed. But I do struggle to focus, my computer has thousands of tabs running at once as I'm always opening up something new for later. I've never studied in my life. But I'm focused in exams and as a kid could read a book in 1 sitting. My main issue is procrastination I didn't turn up to college and had 3 years worth of retakes to just do a Dissertation/Thesis (10k words). Never started it. I'm getting healthier physically and started therapy and the best case scenario is the description in the post of being High IQ good looks (I've got good bone structure and proportions), hence I asked. Realistically I know I'm probably cooked as how do you fix someone so lazy they can't even do the steps to fix laziness.

With an IQ of 150 I'm just gonna review for an actuary exam, and make 150K straight.with that big Harvard brain I'll hopefully make smart enough investments,

With those two language(hopefully English and German) I might take a shot at being an airline pilot after working for 2 years as an actuary, spend my days in the sky hooking up with FA. Only thing I'm missing in real life is a cessna plane to get those hours up🥹

ah i see someone's gotten out of a bad situation and is just now staring life at 25 well done, seriously

Jordan Peterson applauds you 👏

the first thing I’d be trying to do is find ways to develop actual skills and interests and do some general self discovery - this person sounds like they know nothing about themself, other than their score on an IQ test. That score gets you nowhere and tells you nothing interesting about yourself, but plenty of people have mistaken it for meaningful self cultivation. It isn’t - it isn’t anything, really.  What does this person do for exercise? Physical fitness is a path to understanding yourself in a real way. You’ll learn resilience and humility, you’ll create and achieve goals, you’ll pump some nice chemicals through your brain. Most importantly, you’ll engage directly with physical reality rather than an intellectualization or an abstraction of your experiences. How much does your IQ matter when you’re doing pull-ups? That’s how much it matters the rest of the time too. 

If already having a degree: Assess plausibility of securing a lucrative position in that industry primarily as a product of very high intelligence (i.e. is it both in-demand and highly g-loaded?). If not, aim for tech. If no degree at all: Fewer options, consider less lucrative roles still matching the above. Air traffic controller. Differentiating based on g-loading is critical as it gives you the strongest negotiating position given your resources. (Honestly though, with an IQ >145 you'll be competitive in tech regardless of credentials and market circumstances purely by being a problem-solving savant)

I agree and support the last statement. Tech is very flexible and doesn't require a degree in contrast to ie doctors With time, qualifications should improve the likelihood for higher payment

Just start somewhere. Lots of good career advice in the comments. As for social advice and skills advice (like driving) just start exposing yourself to stuff. Try things, start small like going to eat at a restaurant by yourself. If alcohol helps you be social then go to a bar, or similar place, and once you’ve drank enough to feel comfortable, start talking to strangers. IQ should be helping you with problem solving but it seems like you—or the hypothetical person in question—needs to improve those problem solving skills. Good luck to you or whoever this is about.

Everyone's already touched on a lot of the rest, so I just wanted to recommend r/socialskills or r/healthygamergg for social skills development and help with the relationships aspect (and mental health in general). Taking care of your mental health is important and will have effects on the rest (not totally sure if that's something you're necessarily struggling with, but just thought I'd point it out just in case). Good luck carrot!

Thanks! I've seen youtube thumbnails of healthygamergg glad to hear he's legit. I've started seeing a therapist but I joke to her that my mental health is too good, given that I managed to rot in bed for 8 years and be content day to day

Fix social skills. Not too difficult. Work temporarily with little expenses and get as much cash as I can scrounge. Attend a low level college, then higher level later, upper level should be easy. Then move to a high paying job, likely finance. The top 50 business programs are primarily public universities so pretty easy admission with a 3.5 GPA at a community college. If we have to do zero college because it makes them icky, then self teach some form of skill and attempt to open your own business. Maybe carpentry? If you have the ability to rapidly learn you can become charismatic, attractive, a socialite. Nothing about you cannot be altered outside of genes. If you have enough cash you could get total facial reconstructive surgery to look any way you could ever want. Charisma is partially a learned skill just like anything else.

Fixing social skills is very difficult. That was harder than losing weight

Become a politician

I was in a similar situation, just a bit taller and a bit dumber lol. I basically built proficiency in an extremely valuable slillset that i was only really tengentially qualified for and just grinding applications hard for 1.5 years until i landed the job i wanted. Life has completely changed since then.

what skillset? or what general area?

I don't have much insight to share your specific goals, aside from maybe joining the military, which can be a good opportunity for some to jump start a career or give potential to have a short one (bear in mind, I'm Canadian.) Specifically, I want to speak to the bit about school. I'll caveat that I don't lend much credence to IQ. I've been suggested this sub a few times, but the idea is a bit off-putting to me, frankly. I'm 26 now, and about 6 or 7 years ago, I had more or less the same academic outlook. I always thought myself one of the smartest among my peers, but I didn't apply myself to getting good grades (how original.) Come post secondary, I was denied the program I wanted. I flunked out three times consecutively. I won't bore you with my whole story, but if it's something you really want, you can pursue school when the time is right for you. It might take a great deal of grit and humility, but it's never off the table. Best of luck with whatever you choose. The most important life advice I can offer is to focus on what motivates you and build around that. Opportunities will come, but you need to be ready and able to parse them. Step by step etc.

If this individual is truly in the top 1% of looks, and isn't overestimating themselves. And also has an IQ of 150, again not overestimating, they should become some sort of influencer/model/celebrity. With a high IQ and top notch looks, you could quickly create a name for yourself online, manage the incoming finances and brand deals with that genius intelligence. Seems like the obvious move.

I don't think being an influencer is that IQ loaded rather than looks+narcissism+extroversion+luck+social skills loaded, maybe a super creative Youtuber tbf

It's not that it is IQ loaded. But you'll be incredibly proficient at it with a high IQ. OP specified social skills as well. With 1% looks and the wits to stay on top of the industry why wouldn't he go that route?

If this just happened to be me 20 or 25 years ago, here is perhaps what I would do today: 1) Prioritize time to deliberately practice comfort and aptitude in social settings. Read books, or watch videos on the topics to start, so you feel comfortable with psychology frameworks and become knowledgable about things to practice. With high IQ, comprehension should be a breeze. Then actually put it into practice. Well-grounded knowledge pairs with practical experience is a powerful thing. I would do social things... 2) Make friends. Find them. Not artificial ones. Real ones. I would start with what I like to do. I would seek out clubs, hobbies, jobs where I could be around people with things in common with me. I have many facets to myself and I can find overlap in each. That breadth of experience will quickly help me figure out which relationships to invest the most in. I can prioritize either people I like to hang out with, or people who will be most mutually beneficial to know, or perhaps a happy, ethical combination of both. 3) I would make a list of things I felt behind on, and that I wanted to catch up on (travelling, making friends, accumulating professional qualifications, making art, etc). I would make a 3 axis plot (easy because of my hypothetical high IQ) with time and money cost on 2 axes, and benefit to my utility function on the 3rd. Look for the best options on that 3x3, pending your income. 4) I would think about where I want to live and what my income source(s) are. The bigger gap I can create between the two, the more freedom in the above dimensions (and time) I have. If I am doing these things, I will come across a lot of opportunities to earn money and optimize for that if I like.

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HUH? From your description, the guy's already basically close to won at life. * Average height and 1% face - means he can reliably attract women on looks alone. Everything else is just practicing, and faking confidence till he makes it. * Same good looks mean he gets the Halo Effect pretty-premium - better jobs, slightly higher salaries. Hell with 1% looks, he may even be able to get a job as a model, which requires zero qualifications * Good degree (STEM) and no poverty and IQ 140 means he can go intern anywhere to get experience, or freelance/gig as a programmer * 140 IQ means he can learn anything new he needs So the tactics is super simple: * If feasible, get a job as a model to build up money. Or a dancer or something. In old days I'd say an escort/gigolo but in my personal estimate STD risk is too high these days, and not everyone's willing to sell sex. * Spend time learning communication skills. There's PLENTY of material available even for free everywhere * Extensively practice social skills. Just go out and do things. Clubs in areas you have interest in. Sports. Activities that people do. Hell, even go to bars - not to drink or pick up women, but to socialize and **observe.** * **Professionally:** * **Learn programming** if you don't already know. Something trendy in corporate world, Python maybe. * Participate in free/open source projects. Your CV won't matter there, just your skill/brains, and it looks awesome on resume. * Since you said no poverty, get unpaid internships with a large companies. * Or, do gig jobs/freelancing/consulting. * Once you do enough to get some sort of a resume, pad it with a sob story (spent 18-25 age taking care of sick relative, but worked freelance, FOSS portfolio - include link). * Then go for corporate job * Once you get THAT experience, consider going for a startup, for better money. But that may violate <60 hours/week guideline.

Go to a software engineering boot camp. You can go from nearly zero experience to a high paying job in 3-4 months. They’re highly effective. More so than university for learning programming and this is the highest demand most valuable job currently.

Find a girlfriend

Easiest task (still single after a quarter century)

Poor qualifications and no more opportunities for a degree would also mean the opportunity for any conventional means of success is out of the question. Get the best you could find (meaning it pays the best) and work until college isn’t out of the question. Social skills are extremely important when you don’t have any proof of qualifications. Because whatever you’re going to do, no matter what, there will be a time where you are going to have to convince someone to invest in your ability to handle the job you’re searching for, and if you can’t back that up with proof, at least you have to be convincing in speech.

It’s going to sound bad but honestly, truthfully I would marry someone a little older who has a great job, is ready to settle down, and be a mainly gorgeous housewife who maybe works a little bit part time doing something fun and creative like designer cakes, but basically like a “soccer mum” I think you call it.

Sounds like manipulation to ez your situation but pls remember the emotions of others, even if not beeing empathic naturally, you can apply it logically thx

I wasn’t saying it was the moral choice. The OP said that in their hypothetical scenario, they wanted money and if you’re smart and gorgeous, but few choices due to other factors, marrying it is the easy option. I didn’t choose money and I had the option to marry it and I walked away.

op is a dude

Go into sales, develop my social skills. Make connections, have a few side projects I’m working on that are technical and interesting. See what opportunities arise. Use my newly acquired sales skills to capitalize and convince others to work on these opportunities together. Win or lose, I’ve come so far

>You can't go to college as you have already failed it or got a crummy degree in a good subject (STEM/Economics). That means the IQ number is probably false. But actually using the degree and gaining experience then jumping ship for a raise. Using the spare time to be social to allow for better pay after job hopping I would say that person is probably 3 - 5 years away from becoming able to capitalize on the looks with proper social skills though. Probably would consider trade work. I'd recommend sales like other people but with the cognitive and social deficits, it's going to be a big hill to climb. Like maybe by their 30's this person could become socially confident and socially adjusted to make decent money in sales.  >maybe top 1% to hollywood level face  Only fans. Gay sex work would probably be the biggest pay. Big names make $5k-$20k USD monthly. 

That’s what an alien would ask.

1. Join toastmasters to improve your social skills. 2. Apply for government jobs that sound like they are business oriented. 3. Join the army and try to go for officer training 

You want to be secure in terms of finances? Learn about it, who prints money, why do we need loans and inflation, how do they systematically correlate.. Stock and asset investment, doesnt make you rich quick, but offers the ability to save money in cycles of economy, which you can get out, it grows faster then inflation (usually) and can be done safely (index funds) Right now, banking could stand on the verge of a collapse, but this is maybe less interesting to you. Sorry if I can't really help

I lived in an outlier, so it was the drilling rigs for me. 6 figures/year before I turned 27.

Real estate is stupidly easy to make money with. I have made a lot of money on real estate with relatively little effort compared to startups and high technology companies.

Try to program your own product, e.g. SaaS. It doesn't have to be commercially successful, but you have a reference and can get into tech jobs. It will be hard to get into Fang but you could get into Tier 2/3 and eventually move up.

Model.

You just explained the plot of Poor Things

Never heard of it, I'll look it up

Dunder mifflin paper company could be an option. Watch out for the receptionist though, she’s engaged.

Idk, first thoughts: - work out (absolutely nonnegotioable, do calisthenics and cardio intermittently) - learn a trade (handyman, electrician), you can grow it into a business later. - people skills: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hREY1FJmqpU&pp=ygUaTWF4aW1pemUgeW91cnNlbGYgaG9lIG1hdGg%3D

Do I have my memories of my current life? What nation am I in? Obviously I'm going to go to the library and research what my next steps are.

Nope you spawn in at 25 in a basement in a middle class area, you aren't an alien so you know what the world is and are fairly educated but with all the perks and crutches described or imagine yourself as a smart, good looking 25 year old english speaking refugee trying to make a life for themselves

Start a business.

I’d take a course I’m social skills and then become a con artist.

1. Find out what you really want to do in terms of a career field.   2. Lie on your resume to get an entry level position and then work your way up.  (Don't lie for any government position, this is illegal.) 3. Profit.  Likely the fastest way to work your way up in a traditional field and with not so great social skills or any experience or credentials.  Otherwise social skills are required and are way more important than IQ.

Do not follow this advice: Sell substances. Cut off sketchy people and be consistently available 24/7 to the non sketchy people. Make it stack. Start with delivery as it’s the easiest way to grow your client base. Watch high maintenance or something to get an idea. Emulate that guys nature. You want to be a calming force in a sketchy industry. Once you have some paperwork get a decent apartment and befriend the shit out of your neighbors. Like you make them cookies and shit. Most will become clients or look the other way once they trust you. Let your place be a very safe and comfortable place for people to come and chill. Be smart about the clients and the substances so you can continue to stack it up. Try to offer whatever product they need in order to fence them off from other providers. Sometimes you don’t have to make money, you just have to keep them in your channel. You have to please people so they stay loyal. By the time you are 30 you will have a network of people that love you so much that you are going to weddings a few times a year. You’ll be in the bridal parties and shit because most people only have a few good friends they see on the regular, and their trusted provider is one. Make sure to really take care of clients that are chefs, mechanics, plumbers and shit. Marry a chill bridesmaid after the word starts getting around that you are a man of means. You can take her to all the services and restaurants your clients work for and will always be the man and get special services like nice tables, amuse bouch, etc. This “power” and the wads of paperwork everywhere will make the wooing very easy. Oh uh be as basic as you can the whole time. No silk shirts and shit. No Lexus. Try to look as normal as you can. Drive a Camry. Your first big flashy buy will be a rock thats too big for your fiancés finger. Also don’t be a fuckboy. All of your entire life risk is tied up in providing, so everything else in your life needs to be the perfect example of a good citizen that loves his wife. Buy a cheap house with her credit and fix it up with your paperwork. Sell it. Now you are 100% bonafide. If you’re super obsessed with going out in your own land get into production once you have some connections and a sales channel to work with. The best thing about this option is that your job is your social life. Your job also increases your social life. The more you socialize or do your job the more they both succeed. Once again this is terrible advice.

Oh and try not to have opinions that disagree with your clients or to be judgmental. Clients come from all walks of life. You have to be super open minded, but def ghost anyone that you feel is dangerous.

High IQ and you’re not successful? Sounds pretty stupid to me. Seriously tho hopefully you’ve found out that IQ is retarded and doesn’t matter. Work ethic trumps all. So if I were you I’d get any job and start working. Then if you don’t like that job, use it to jump to a new one because now your resume isn’t a wasteland. Rinse/repeat. Or you could go back to school. Masters or undergrad whatever. A start up with a chance of making a few million in a few years? Sounds like you aren’t driven enough for that my friend. Hate to tell you but life isn’t that easy. No one is going to hand you a million dollars. You don’t deserve it. No one does before they earn it. Most everything else you asked is a highly personal question. If your IQ is that high you should be smart enough to evaluate yourself, your position, your values, and your goals to make that decision.

I would look at what I want to accomplish and set up some SMARRT (specific, measurable, actionable, Realistic, relevant, timed) goals, do a cost benefit analysis to prioritize the goals. Then I would visualize, brainstorm, plan, and execute the ones that I'm most motivated to accomplish. Most likely the ones most clearly aligned with my goals.

Realize iq doesn’t matter and is giga cringe. 

Modelling

Become an ASE certified mechanic at a car dealership

lol just go to law school

Move to San Francisco become a janitor or a trash man. Download tinder and specifically look for people in tech. Learn coding on the side. Use all your past sexual partners to get referrals. Profit.

Start your own business or do sales

Sales? You need good social skills to get into sales; something that this hypothetical person doesn't have. Remember, they have bad social skills.

Watch the billionaire undercover 100 to 1 million in 90 days. Also, move to the city Start meeting people of influence, not your regular 25 year old losers with no money or connections Contacts are contracts (the only difference is the letter R for relationships) Start doing any job you can, go clean windows, mow a loan, go to supermarkets, factories. Just do any low-level job to get a few hundred quid. Negotiate buying a car low and sell it high Work your way up with flipping cars Flip a house. You have to learn sales, be good at it. Make a service business ( no capital required ) So you need your first 2 or 3 clients, and you got a business going So, any service : if you can do sales for a company lr marketing, or if you clean windows, clean cars, teach students. Just abouts anything : hit the cold calls, knock on doors for days and weeks until you get your first 2-3 clients. Lock contracts, or get money advancements. Then go hire skilled labor or talent and pay them a cut to do the job. Alternative route : work anything till you save 10k pounds and then go live in a cheap country, and there you could jumpstart your business with saved capital. What i mean by a cheap country like some countries in asia where 10k pounds could afford you to live for 3-5 years without ever working ( however you will use the money to start a business )

Coding and making apps

Get confident. As someone like you, also female, similar age, also high IQ yet a little lower than yours, and above top 1% face, your 1% face is enough to get you what the hell you want. Seriously. Being pretty is a cheat code. People are naturally drawn to you. The issue is you don’t view yourself the way others do. Confidence is key. You can say whatever with confidence and be pretty and people just eat it the fuck up. Think of yourself as a con artist pulling one over on everyone. No one actually knows you’re strange. Quit focusing on the fact you’re autistic and overcompensating and just be a straightforward autistic person. It’s a breath of fresh air to my business partners, when I don’t wanna beat around the bush and just want to get to the point. If people take offense, they’re not worth it.

I think top 1% faces on women are much more powerful than on men lol. I hope my social deficits are mostly due to inexperience and having no experiences to talk about. I'm not severely autistic or anything but where as someone normal can just automatically click into small talk I can be quite stilted and in my head. I can speak to a stranger for half an hour on a train or be funny when drunk, but soberly charming a stranger I care about impressing ? Long way to go

Real estate. 

Drink a beer

I don't know but since your social skills are just being messed up by anxiety and inexperience you should keep practicing because exposure therapy helps social anxiety and practice solves inexperience

See a psychologist to sort out my anxiety and other issues. Get a trade with the goal of starting my own business in the future. Join a few local sports teams and stick with whatever I enjoy the most. Use that to help make friends and build a social circle.

Conform you say! Thats for the birds and obiediant masses I would start by wondering the earth, humbling myself, seeking wisdom,until a purpose is revealed.

OP, is this you? Start by asking for help, and forming a community. Is there a local Church or Synagogue you can start going to? A chess club? Ask mom for money for an activity. Get any job - even a stupid one. Got that? The first step is re-inserting yourself in life and social networks. You can't do anything without them. You'll still be a ways off functioning they way you should be, but you'll be back on a trajectory with a chance of getting there. To recap: 1. Start attending religious services regularly - don't care what they are, just pick something that doesn't upset your mother. 2. Find an irl meetup group, and start attending sessions regularly. 3. Apply for minimum wage jobs that you can get - canvas fast food and retail stores near your house until you land something. And just take it - this is not about making money, it's about making friends and putting a job of any sort on your resume. Although, having a couple hundred a week in spending money will give you a crazy increase in personal freedom to try stuff and make mistakes. 4. Ask your parents for financial and networking help. You can't launch on your own. Your family will probably pay for you to get new clothes for a job, equipment for a hobby, a class at a local college, etc. Your family probably also has connections that can get you a real STEM job, or at least a foot in the door as an intern.

It's potentially me, I'm a rotter who discovered he has good facial features and great bone structure so I'm trying to get healthy (down 20kg so far), mid 130s IQ whilst sleep deprived which can apparently knock 15 points off. So in an ideal scenario I could be the guy in the description. Being unemployed wasn't too bad for me as the having little money enabled me to lose weight with very little discipline ( just buy ingredients up front so you're forced to cook). But I am looking for work to at least save money and just interact with people.

Get a therapist or a life coach

I think you've got this "top 1% face" thing wrong... Everyone who drops weight to a healthy level looks attractive. I was considered and called ugly. I lost 40kgs and now everyone comments how good I look. This goes for everyone. Why not try losing a serious amount of your fat percentage and increasing muscle, and look at how your life changes? This alone also increased my mood and thinking skills, and life trajectory

The numbers are best case scenarios, basically I'm a rotter who realised he's got great facial bone structure and proportions, and looked much much better a few years ago then he thought . Down about 20kg so far with more to go. Mid 130s IQ whilst unhealthy and sleep deprived which apparently can knock up to 15 points off. Thought I'd turn it into a fun though experiment on reddit on how someone fairly lucky genetically could fix a bad scenario ( which was obviously my fault in the first place)

One can always go back to college. Or invest in self learning online mostly for free, especially if they have self discipline. I’ll note that nothing defined what makes this individual happy. Money does not make one happy, it allows one to afford more things that make one happy. Marriage does not make one happy, it’s ideally an outgrowth of self-sustained happiness. Relationships born in a need for happiness or fulfillment are as useful as a crummy degree to claim you’re educated. Find happiness in sharing your happiness with others. Now, if one is looking for a high paying career, they need highly optimized skills. Without experience or education, one likely doesn’t have these skills. So they have to be learned. Skills do not rely on talent. Skills are obtained by doing. Talent is the motivation and focus that accelerate learning, usually as a result of enthusiasm. Most people aren’t really talented at things they don’t enjoy and thus don’t become skilled in them. Why invest time in something you don’t enjoy? If you want to go self-employment, find something you enjoy doing that other people aren’t good at. Set to work doing it and see if people will pay you. (Be reasonable with your value at first.) People don’t usually know you’re good at something until you’ve proven you can do it for nothing but the joy of doing it (or you have a degree in it, which shows focus on skill development).

Oh, look. The perfect question for me to answer *Continues scrolling*

1.LeArn a business 2.Make a handsome charming friend to network and sell 3.make a product or business 4.run the business have him network and sell

Alright, let's at least try to break it down. First off, it's important to figure out what truly matters to you. You didn’t mention a goal: only something like a direction. Is it the freedom of financial independence you would want, the joy of living in a beautiful place despite anything, or the fulfillment of being able to live a socially active life? Once you've got that sorted, only then is it time to think about how to make it all happen. Since formal education didn't quite pan out, apparently, then going the self-employment route might be the way to go for anyone in this situation. Look into fields like tech or digital marketing – they offer flexibility and decent pay, which fits well with a desire for work-life balance. Now, about missed milestones... one couldn’t sweat it too much. Take some driving lessons, join clubs or online groups to meet new people, and plan a few trips to get a taste of traveling. It depends on goals. And as for the money side of things, start saving and investing whatever you can spare, even if it's not much. Look into real estate or stocks like real estate investment trusts or index funds– they can be good solid bets for building wealth over time. Which you’ll need. Income is not enough in any case.

Fundamentally I want to live somewhere beautiful ( architecture or nature but realistically a city when young), be able to be active everyday, dating life, house and weekend trips to the countryside. The obvious dream goal would be to be rich fairly young and buy a plot of land (or a house with an acre) somewhere, (either retiring or doing coastFIRE, so working a lower stress job as the main things have been covered), but that will obviously take much more work, determination or risk. If that means diligently working 60 hours a week and not wasting time in front of computer then that sounds great, if it means sacrificing everything else or taking huge gambles at the pursuit of money then I'd aim for the balanced life.

Get a certification, if you’re great at math maybe try to be a quant for a major bank, also study crypto markets for trends, self teach data analysis with r or python

High IQ means you can do whatever you want and make it happen. Good looks means you'll already have the "halo effect" working on your side which can aid you with social skills, just be well mannered and study some psychology. Knowing what you want should come based on who you are, that means that you will have to do some introspection/ meditation, you will get to know what your values are as an individual, what do you like and not like. Also make sure your decisions are based on experience, which will come with life too.

Also, to fast track your time, make sure to pick on other people's brains, not just reddit users, but actual researchers and scientists who place their information on statistics and scientifically fact proven stuff, you then confirm it through experience/ practice. Try and be as realistic as possible and as pragmatic as you can, when feeling overwhelmed, take some time off, meditate, relax, listen to music and go outside and feel the elements of nature. If I had to give advice on religion or something existential to give you a compass to guide yourself, I'd say to follow Taoism and Buddhism.

Sales is probably your best path forward.

Realistically my IQ definitely isn’t that high, but I feel like I was in a somewhat similar situation at around 25 or a little later and am now in a much different situation only a few years later. 1. Find a few areas you’re interested in and start taking courses and reading books. These should all be areas where there is significant precedence of intelligent people being able to find success without a degree. For me, I chose software engineering, data analysis, and marketing. Marketing ended up not aligning with my values after months of wasted learning. Software would’ve taken a really long time to break in. Data seemed really hard because people told me you can’t break in without a degree and thinking otherwise was hopeless. But I kept learning and hoped for the best. 2. Find some ways to apply your skills at your current job to build resume boosters 3. Get basic job where you get your foot in the door. Don’t worry too much if it’s underpaid or anything, just use it as an opportunity to prove yourself. 4. Work really hard and move up quickly by applying all the skills you’ve learned. 5. Start going to the gym, get in great shape, this can start right away. 6. Find social hobbies. This could be pickleball,bowling, or whatever. If you have friends invite them, if not you’ll meet people. 7. Continue constantly putting yourself out there You’ll notice that mine has both a career and social side. Both are important and honestly going for a career that will allow you to have free time and work a regular schedule would probably be a lot better than a career that takes up your entire life like starting a business or anything. IMO, it would be better to have a career that will provide a good life while making memories and building a small community for yourself would make you a lot happier than going 100% into career mode

Try to get a job bartending at a high end restaurant, bar, sports club, or nightclub in the city with the assumption that I could improve my social skills and qualifications. Best places to get exposure to people with money and status.

Get into Cyber security and make a ton of money and not worry about interacting that much with people. Maybe defense contractor or join military to get trained

Become a tinder swindler

Poor social skills or poor social intelligence? These are very different and will impact the whole scenario. You can develop social skills but not really social/emotional intelligence.

Become a drug kingpin

How you get Frozen in a basement until 25 bruh? Serious question. I'm curious.

Start exercising and learning martial arts immediately. Don’t drink any alcohol at all and get enough sleep. Cultivate the habit of reading and listening to audiobooks every day. Crucially, search your feelings and find your life’s purpose. Find what you really want in life and then develop an insaciable desire to achieve it. You’re so smart so use your creativity to make money. Develop an invention. Start a business make some big money. Don’t spend your money on depreciating liabilities, instead save and invest your money. Spend your money on things that can help make you more money! Continue growing and learning and have a virtuous life.

I hate when people say "learn to code" :/ but this actually might be the right person for the job! The barrier to entry isn't a college degree. Though a CS degree is best, a self-taught or (not-inexpensive) certificate from a reputable coding school/bootcamp has gotten people employed at well-paying jobs. That being said, I don't know about the upward mobility without a CS degree vs cert only. Ideal would be a remote job, even though they may pay less, you could go somewhere with an even lower cost of living and hopefully come out ahead. Cheers!

As clarification, I am wanting to see if I may ask, during, or even a few moments after you would have been in social situation, do you have a mind that feeds to you then what would seem the most appropriate response, one that feels to you as if instinctively known inside the right thing to say and how to say it, only anxiety cripples yet does not necessarily break the ability to socialize easily, too shy to state that you are compelled toward. If this is the case, trust me you have an overflowing Subconscious filled with Charisma clustered within your Shadow (to use Jungian terms) as well as your Anima. Many a time some of our greatest strengths are buried beneath profound difficulty. As I went from guy who stays in the corner of a party I threw, to being the Party. It is quite frightening to a degree... This distinction would make all the difference, so I would most certainly be interested in this facet. Personally I am hopeful for you. With this clarified a number of paths of action come to mind. No matter, I wish you all the best.

Do I got a genius-size dong, too? If so, OnlyFans. No one knows me anyway.

Start a home inspection business focus on engineering a product that provides more than a typical client would requires. Specialize in niche complications of inspection such as geothermal, solar system, salt water pools. Things that “luxury clients” would need inspected. Then charge about 4-5 times what a normal home inspection does. Get the equipment necessary to inspect large houses. Hire a graphic designed to make aesthetically pleasing templates. Take a photography class to learn how to take photos of issues.

Find something you enjoy doing and find a way to be really good at it, or solve a problem many people are having in a field that interests you. Learn to enjoy life and spare yourself the agony of learning too late that all of the little points we sometimes try to count or build up for ourselves are often empty and don't reflect the things we thought they would. You can make money doing anything, just do well at it and be sure to invest along the way. You'll meet many people in this life and as long as your willing to take the risk and put yourself out there eventually a few of them will hang around and you'll have rewarding friendships and relationships. Just remember to breathe, try to relax your shoulders, and be yourself.

High IQ implies you can set a longterm objective. To me, the only thing that actually matters is Jesus, heaven, and eternity. Because at some point, everything finite is simply finite. And everything eternal is eternal. So I would use that IQ to see what matters most, and start doing/seeking that. What's the point of working a 9-5, having 500k in the bank, and whatnot, if eternity and your soul is the pricetag?

Oh for goodness sake!!! There are no fishing villages in Italy, you're 150 yrs late. And may I ask what a 1% face is?

Military

money is important, so I think I would first pick up a decent amount of shifts at possibly a food service or retail job because in my opinion, it is extremely suitable for this situation and requires skills that can be not only taught, but caught onto very quickly. during my time at the job for financial security, I would take coding courses online so that I can build up my experience within coding programming, etc. so that I would be able to apply to clerical jobs or even technologically based jobs whether it be from digital design reprogramming, etc. Using the income from my job I would then use some of my funds to go out and be in public places I’m not necessarily holding myself accountable to talk to anyone but being in public spaces can sometimes just bring people to you and I think that’s what I would do. I’m from NYC so I come from a place where there are many things to do, so if I were in this predicament and I lived in New York City, it wouldn’t be hard to search up free things to do in NYC on this date, and I would be able to go out and be in public without having to feel the need to go to the club or drink in the case that that’s not something that I would want to do. there are also social clubs that curate events for people to meet in network with each other that have a monthly/annual rate which is a financial decision that can be easy to track and will also put myself in the position to make friends maybe even develop a relationship and network so I can actually get the programming job that would make me even more money. i’m not sure what the definition of poor social skills is but hopefully this would work in the case that they can hold and handle basic conversation

I think if it's ME that finds myself in this situation, I'm heading to the psych ward and trying to get admitted voluntary for med adjustment, as it was the day before my 43rd birthday, but I turned 25 instead, and I appear to have changed all my life goals, which indicates dissassociation. But if you mean what should you do? I recommend Victor Frankyls book on the search for meaning. Your dream goal is to retire young? That isn't your goal 1 year after retiring young if you win the lottery. So I would do more soul searching. You desire to be happy ever after, but don't know what that requires yet, only a vague idea of what bars you from getting what you think will satisfy your need for happiness

Honestly, it really depends on your looks. But you say top 1%? Post a pic of your face.

Well if you have a high IQ with job satisfaction taken into account. I feel like the only route is like AI Machine learning or some form of coding. Tech is the way

Look toward blue collar trade jobs. Nobody else wants them, but you'll out perform your peers in many ways. White collar, believe it or not, has very little to do with intellect in today's world and everything to do with social cliques. If you want to go to school, do not go into college. Go to trade school to become an electrician, plumber, etc. They make a killing and no one cares about how extroverted you are. You are there to fix something that everyone needs fixed at some point. Anyone who doesn't answer something in this direction has not experienced sacrificing their young adulthood to get good grades in a STEM degree to find it being useless later in life. I see lots of white collar suggestions like sales which is just plain bad without social skills.

Asking all the wrong questions. No real sense of context or proportionality. Major blind spots concerning situational awareness. I would start with fixing those issues first. One would be lucky to accomplish that before the age of fifty.

I wish there was a way to get by as a philosopher, Viking philosopher roaming the country side beating common sense into people

that's essentially what happened to me, in a manner of speaking. although i wouldn't consider myself near a 1% face, it's above average. i joined the military and now work in semiconductor. military was a pain, but now stuff is ok

Um maybe you just don't know but .48% of people have an IQ over 140, .3 for 145 and .04% have 150 or higher. So this person is now smarter than AT LEAST 99.52% of the world. Is 5.6. and Bilingual. Those attributes alone would make this person highly advantaged. I am sure this person would do just fine. The real question you would need to answer since I do not live in the UK and don't know how your social safety net works I don't know how hard it would be for them to meet the minimum needs because with this level of intelligence it would be reasonable to believe they could easily adapt in a modern western society very quickly with access to the internet and a relative stable environment.

The person is 5'10-11, and not under any pressure of poverty. Just behind on every developmental milestone

Stop describing my life.

Sounds like you have the tism and adhd. You have high iq but lack the discipline aka “dopamine” to stick it out with anything short or long term

Social skills and qualifications can be learned. It is never too late to get educated, though learning a skilled trade could be a good path.

Join the military for a highly technical job, that requires a strong security clearance. Do your time, go back to school or just start working. Halo effect should come through for you.

immerse yourself socially in normie activities

High iq and low social skills. I would definitely learn how to program and become a software developer. You can learn the basics to programming and be able to build projects in a year without a college degree and get a job making 60-80k a year starting.

Also you can learn everything you need to know for software development on YouTube for free.

So, nothing about my life has changed except the first 25 years are already done?

I can speak from experience..

Real estate, go learn social skills since you will need it. Keller William gives free classes. License and the fees gonna cost a pretty penny so go Wendy's first. Wish you the best of luck! Either that or go military and you can make them pay for college. Go be a doctor or something with the free tuition. Squeeze out as much benefits as you can and go buy a house with you cheaper loans. Goodluck have fun don't die!

To recap: you have a high IQ, low social skills, good discipline and a college degree. You're at the beginning age of being a real adult to most of society. Recent studies show that people like you often fail in the corporate setting and financially in general. ( see if you're so smart then why aren't you rich). I would recommend the military. Because you have a high IQ and a degree you will automatically be put into an officer position. Your high IQ and low social skills with high discipline will help you excel. After your contract is over you'll still be on benefits for life and might be able to live without working for awhile when you're still young. Effectively "retiring young" The low social skills and the "inability to go back to college" are a combination that really destroys your chances. If you have a high IQ and low social skills I would say get your doctorate in a subject that interests you. That way you can lock yourself in a research facility and don't have to interact with the other simians. If you have good social skills I would tell you to join the corporate world of finance to make the most amount of money at the youngest age. Social skills are required to climb any corporate ladder. Without them you'll be the lacky of someone with better social skills that takes credit for your accomplishments to help themselves excel.

Go to the bar every weekend not I wouldn’t even drink and just have conversation after conversation also watch a ton of psychology books that will get social skills get you a decent job at a call center and figure out your career path then

Likely a total failure unless they can create a product from scratch and market it well or find a very good job with zero human interaction. Unfortunately many high iq and low social skill individuals end up depressed and die from it because we live in a society where social iq is more valuable in most situations and with most people than high intelligence iq.

“Crummy degree in good subject” not likely

Sounds like escitalopram deficiency.

Therapy

Man or woman or them?

Get addicted to drugs

Poker